Cabourg belongs to the Paris Basin. The commune is located next to the sea and the back country is a plain, favourable to the cereal culture. Cabourg is under the influence of an oceanic climate, with fresh summers and soft winters.

Cabourg belongs to the Paris Basin. The commune is located next to the sea and the back country is a plain, favourable to the cereal culture.

It was from Cabourg that William the Conqueror drove the troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058.

But the modern Cabourg began in 1853 with the arrival of two Paris financiers in search of a new site for a luxurious watering-place. The railway age had made the Normandy coast accessible to holiday-makers; Dieppe, Trouville and Deauville to the east had already been discovered; but here the adventurers found a virgin expanse of barren dunes and level sea-sands ripe for development. By the 1880s an unreal city of villas and hotels had arisen, in a semicircle whose diameter was the seafront, whose centre was the Grand Hotel, and whose radii were traced by a fan-work of avenues shaded with limes and Normandy poplars.

Wikipedia articles for Cabourg

• Cabourg
• Gare de Dives-Cabourg
• Dives-sur-Mer
• Port of Dives-sur-Mer
• English Channel-Dives
• Gare de Houlgate
• Houlgate
• Action of 30 May 1798
• Périers-en-Auge
• Brucourt
• Varaville